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Is This Site Moribund?
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Lawrie
Joined: 25 Sep 2008
Posts: 13
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 Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: Is This Site Moribund? |
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I note that very few messages have been posted on this site in recent times. Apart from one from "PadreSol" and myself there is nothing since May of this year and most messages are two years or more old.
Is there really nothing more to say about these remarkable Dobsonian telescopes?
No commments about:
How to use them.
How to modify them or improve them.
Comments on finders (apart from the"latest" messages ).
Simple observing projects for which they are so suitable.
There is so much that could be said by users but maybe it is more common that people, it seems, are now more "telescope owners" rather telescope users.
And so is it really worth posting anything here if there is no response or other sign of life?
Lawrie |
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bigbry49
Joined: 09 Jan 2008
Posts: 17
Location: Worcester
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OK, Lawrie: here's a sign of life for you!
I have a look from time to time and I even posted a reply once to someone looking for help, but I admit it's a bit of a failure that I had to direct him to the Australian website IceInSpace for help.
As for Dobs, well; mine is more of an exercise in keeping me sane than anything else. I started building it at the end of 2007 having seen the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers' site and Ray Cash's and so I sent to the USA for the mirrors thinking they were cheaper than here in the UK (but not reckoning on the VAT it would attract on import!) and have been tinkering with it ever since. I'm currently on my first major makeover of it, being dissatisfied with some aspects of the design - the mirror cell and the focusser in particular - but with perserverance and leftovers from IKEA flatpack I'm getting there.
It's been a lousy summer for viewing but perhaps we'll get some better, clearer nights now and enjoy ourselves a bit more.
Don't give up hope!
Regards
Bryan |
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